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Red Dust 6/30/2021
Reading time: 4 minutes
Intellectuals can be elusive.
Scattered. Indefinite. A little odd.
Ma Jian is one such intellectual. Red Dust, a memoir of his travels through communist China in the mid 1980s, is not a bourgeo...
Eat Pray Love 6/10/2021
Reading time: 4 minutes
I get it.
No more than ten pages into Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love (the title is written interchangeably with commas and without), I understood why the book was a bestseller in 2006, and...
Voyage au Brésil 5/16/2021
Reading time: 4 minutes
This book has it all.
Pirates. Colonialism. Revenge. Religious chauvinism. Naked natives. Slavery. Face-eating lizards. Toe-biting bats. War. Cannibalism. Lawsuits. Starvation and death.
Backgrou...
Postcard: Lake Tahoe 4/30/2021
Reading time: 2 minutes
Gina & I married in March, 2011.
A few months later, we went to San Francisco, Alameda, Lake Tahoe, San Luis Obispo, Big Sur, and Carmel for our honeymoon.
This is a postcard from South Lake Tah...
Baedeker's United States 4/5/2021
Reading time: 3 minutes
I didn't know where to start.
The German bookseller Karl Baedeker wrote travel guides in the late 1820s, and started publishing his famous Baedeker Guides in the 1850s. The last was published in...
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